A woman in North Carolina is attracting media attention for telling her story about pouring drain cleaner in her eyes because she identifies as a blind person.

Jewel Shuping was born with perfectly healthy eyes, but she told Barcroft TV in a recent interview that growing up there was always something missing.

“By the time I was six I remember that thinking about being blind made me feel comfortable,” she said. She fantasized constantly about losing her vision, and spent hours staring directly at the sun after her mother warned her that it would damage her eyes.

At first, Shuping simply pretended to be blind, going about with sunglasses on, her eyes closed, and using a cane to navigate. She also became fluent in braille. But after a while, that just wasn’t enough.

If I said I felt deep down inside that I should have been born with one arm and wanted to chop one arm off I'd be institutionalized. If I said I feel deep down inside that I'm a woman and want to chop my cock and balls off I'm a hero.

If I said I felt deep down inside that I should have been born with one arm and wanted to chop one arm off I'd be institutionalized. If I said I feel deep down inside that I'm a woman and want to chop my cock and balls off I'm a hero.

As un-PC as it is, I've always leaned toward the thought of it being a mental disorder as well. Instead of trying to make the person feel comfortable in their body(which, who knows, may not be fully possible with current mental health methodologies), we pump them full of drugs/hormones and create franken-organs that I gag to even think about.

i figure any surgery that impacts the normal functioning of your body is probably not a good thing. The body seems to be something that evolved so that all its parts and components work together as a system with a lot of complicated feedback loops, and each part probably expects to see all the other parts present. removing one or more parts probably causes the rest to malfunction to some degree. leave your parts intact.

If I said I felt deep down inside that I should have been born with one arm and wanted to chop one arm off I'd be institutionalized. If I said I feel deep down inside that I'm a woman and want to chop my cock and balls off I'm a hero.